Gold Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old gold quotes, gold sayings, and gold proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.

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Gold gathers more than a shovel.

Edward Counsel

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Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

Turkish Proverb

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Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, you become a 'gold alloy' and what that means is that you can rust at any time!

Israelmore Ayivor

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Napoleon Hill

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Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

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Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

George Herbert

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Gold may shine; but it has no true light.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

English Proverb

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

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Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

Austin O'Malley

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If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That's the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

Conn Iggulden

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Second-hand gold is as good as new.

Ken Alstad

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Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

Ron Paul

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A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Thomas Dekker

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Gold often commends the unworthy.

Edward Counsel

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Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.

Moutasem Algharati

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The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

Gerald M. Loeb

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We must learn who is gold, and who is gold plated.

unknown

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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

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There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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Gold makes monsters of men.

Erin Bowman

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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

Matthew Henry

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Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

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Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

Yiddish Proverb

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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Thomas Fuller

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Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

Moliere

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That is gold which is worth gold.

George Herbert

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All that glitters is not gold.

English Proverb

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Gold will be slave or master.

Horace

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True gold fears no fire.

Chinese Proverb

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"Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends."

Aberjhani

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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Lauren Oliver

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But what's worth more than gold? Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Terry Pratchett

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Gold is the corpse of value.

Neal Stephenson

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

Warren Buffett

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There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

William Shakespeare

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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

Charles Dickens

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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

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Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.

Suzy Kassem

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Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination and a hard to find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

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Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.

Suzy Kassem

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Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination and a hard to find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

J. R. Tolkien

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

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Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold

Mark Twain

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Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold

I've been wrong before / But now I know / I've made mistakes in the past / But now I know the difference / From gold and brass.

Ben Harper

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Some shine when the day is new / But fade when the day is through / But you look like gold.

Ben Harper

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But gold is the snare of the soul. Gold is the root of all evil.

Jon Reeves

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Not all treasure is silver and gold.

Ted Elliott

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Gold will never fill an empty heart

Dorothy Clarke Wilson

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That's the beauty of gold. It never tarnishes. Lasts forever, too. You can twist it, pound it, even piss on it but it's always the same gold.

Bob Gale

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If the clouds showered gold instead of rain; marriages round the globe would occur in chambers of impeccable silk.

Nikhil Parekh

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If the clouds showered gold instead of rain; man would incorporate his house with gigantic slabs of the same.

Nikhil Parekh

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If the clouds showered gold instead of rain; people would be saved from the tyranny of monotonous work.

Nikhil Parekh

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Gold in the mountain / And gold in the glen / And greed in the heart / Heaven having no part / And unsatisfied men.

Herman Melville

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Lo! I am come to autumn / When all the leaves are gold / Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out / The year and I are old.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Though / You are like an old / But I see you as a gold / Like an inspiring lamp.

Ehsan Sehgal

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O brother, purer than pure gold / Is the soil of my land / Her soil and water / Her fruits and flowers / Quench our thirst and hunger.

Kazi Nazrul Islam

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But gold defiles with frequent touch / There's nothing fouls the hand so much / And scholars give it for the cause / Of British Midas' dirty paws.

Jonathan Swift

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Midas, we are in story told / Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold / He chipp'd his bread; the pieces round / Glitter'd like spangles on the ground.

Jonathan Swift

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Old hay is equal to old gold / And hence a critic deep maintains / We learn'd to weigh our gold by grains.

Jonathan Swift

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THERE were seventy pillars around the hall / Of wreathed gold was each capital / And the roof was fretted with amber and gems / Such as light kingly diadems.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Gold on her head, and gold on her feet / And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet / And a golden girdle round my sweet / Ah! qu'elle est belle La Marguerite.

William Morris

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If I were rich I would kiss her feet / I would kiss the place where the gold hems meet / And the golden kirtle round my sweet / Ah! qu'elle est belle La Marguerite.

William Morris

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When every blessed thing you hold / Is made of silver, or of gold / You long for simple pewter. / When you have nothing else to wear
But cloth of gold and satins rare.

William Schwenck Gilbert

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Few environments are more totally regimented than those of black migrant workers on the South African gold mines. These men sign up at the recruiting stations in their home territories and are then conducted great distances, usually hundreds of miles, to work on the mines.

Dunbar Moodie

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The grade of South African gold ore is poor. What makes mine controllers and investors rich is the huge quantity of ore deep beneath the this South African soil, so that colossal capital investment brings forth dividends as long as costs can be kept down.

Dunbar Moodie

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Unlike any other commodity, gold has a guaranteed international market, but until the early 1970s the price was fixed.

Dunbar Moodie

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New Guinea is a land of much gold, of which the natives make chains and bracelets which the men and women wear on necks and arms, and the men on pommels of their swords.

Iain McCalman

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Gold was the lure that took travellers beyond the beaches of New Guinea. Until world wars came to the region it was the maine reason for mass movements.

Iain McCalman

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Gold digging seemed an addiction, provoking a level of excitement which meant that men lost any sense of other goals or values.

Iain McCalman

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Gold generated capital for other industries and the population boom created markets for other produce, fostering the development of whole sectors of the Australian economy.

Iain McCalman

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Champions of the gold culture claimed that it fostered independence, ingenuity and manliness and praised an envirorment in which the advantages of inherited privilege meant nothing to an individual's chances of success.

Iain McCalman

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The gold rushes have attained an iconic status in the pantheon of epic nation-making events.

Iain McCalman

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Land of the gold where wealth is spread / Around our feet wher'ver tread / Where gold is scarce to labor wed.

Iain McCalman

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Gold illuminated a vision of the future based on liberal democracy, industrialisation and commercial prosperity.

Iain McCalman

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